The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-07
states evla, NE MAY 81 ana Jake saarp was

States eyid,n,e May 81 aud Jake Sharp wa
aldermen. James W. sv,uA;. cx-p-esidens G
| tie Bru adway road, was also arrested.
Ma.. lS-The Illinois Supreme Court refuset
arehearing IN the case OF Joseph c. MackIn. th'
Chlcaso politician.
! Mar. G-Sam Archer, the last OF the notori
| GUS "Archer Gang. found guilty of murder, aEt
| executed at Shoals, Ind. JUly9
Apr. lat Henrietta, Tex, Valentine San
| ford. aged fourteen. found guilty of the murder
| OF his mother, and sentenced to life imprisOn
I -lent.
Apr. e8-Johann Most the New York Anarch
ist leader. indicted. AID arrested in AZ house o.
$500
Apr 3D-Arrest in New York of George Ed
wards. the noted fOrger.
May 3-An old man OF seventy-th years
| named Sfedd murdered his wife, and then
killed himself near Fekonsha, Mich.
May Throwing of the dynamite bomb into
the ranks OF three hundred Chicago policeman
who had formed to suppress a socialistic gath
ering at the West Side Haymarllet. One
policeman instantly killed, ard fcrty-sig
snd Z large number wounded, by the return
fire. The following Cay August and Christ
Spies, Michael Sohwab and Samuel Fielden
were held for the murder o. Policeman Dcgan.
May 1c-NOrnan Lounsbury. aged seventy
eight in tit OF insanity. killed his sixteen year
| old wife and one Of his rephews and then shot
himself dead, on farm near Oswego n. ".
Hugh M. Brooks. alias Maxwell, placed or trial
IL 81. Louis for murder OF C.. A. Preller.
May l6-Frank p. Gay, one of the leading law
yers of Atlanta. Georgia, murdered by Marshall
Jones, while disputing over a COW.
May lS-Believing that Gcl had called upon
her TO mike Il sacrifice. an Insane widow named
Donnan. living in Lincoln County, West Va.
cut the thIoat5 of her three little daughters and
then Killed herself
June D-At Stanford W.. Mrs. William Sloane
drowned her four year old son to spite her hus-
band. vino bee Ime insane
June 2!-Work OF enpanneling jury in Chi
ago Anarchists cases, in the criminal court
tJudyc Gary. begun. A. Il. Parsons, who had
peen IN hicing. appeared for trial. jury OBJ
tanned on july Is, trial commenced the next DAY.
and on August ~ Spies, Fialcen. Fischer.
Lirgg Parsons. Sciwab aud ErGel were found
guilty OF the murder of Policeman began and
sentenced 20 be hanged December 3. Oscar
Motion foc new trial overruled by Judge Cary
October {. Judge Scott, of the State Supreme
Court, granted {; writ of error November %.
New England Institute Fair Boston. burned by
discharged employees. Many lives lost, and prop
erty worth $3.50. GO destroyed.
June -Four men at Parsons. Kan. found
guilty Of piracy during the Southwestern
July e-Post-osce at Minneapolis. MINI,
robbed Of shLDG
July I6-James Dacey hanged at Woodstock.
II, for murder OF Alderman Gay1or. Of Chicago.
July 27-Charles Engel. one OF the most daring
burglars in TIE country captured by Chicago de-
tectives, and sent 10 Newport. L. l.
Aug. 5-Alfred Packer, miner of Colorado,
accused OF numbering and eating five human
bodies, sentenced 20 forty years in penitcntiary.
Aug. 12-Hrs Sarah Robinson, of Boston.
arrested, charged with poisoning eleven mem
DerS of her family.
Aug a6-Kansas lad Willie Sells. who muir
Gered his father, mother, sister and brother,
sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
Sept. 15-fsesidence of Thomas Lowry. one of
the wealthiest citizens of Minneapolis, robbed
to extent of s20.5O.
Oct. i-William J. Gallagher, notorious in
connection with Chicago election frauds,
arrested for forging county treasurers name to
special assessment receipt.
Oct. president pardors three Mormon
Bishops, sentenced to three years imprison-
ment at Detroit.
Oct 25-hn express car on San Francisco
road robbed of $4,000, near Pacific Mo.
the messenger, Fotheringhan. being subse-
Quentiy arrested for the crime. He was found
bound ana gagged. ana claimed that he HAD
been robbed by "Jm Cummings the last OF
the Jesse James gang
Nov. l9-John Arensdorf. the brewer. indicted
foc murder of Rev. George G. Haddock, at Sioux
City.
Dec. T-proceedings for conspiracy begun in
courts against election forgcrs at Indianapolis.
Dec. a-Gang OF four men and two women,
counterfeiterS Of n!cilelS arrested at Cairo Ill.
Union Club of New York discovered that it had
been robbed of SlO0.0O annually by 4 combina-
ton of servants with tradesmen. Arrest Of
Trenton On. j. aldermen, on charges OF bribery.
Dec. ga ]. McQuaGe, a New York doodle
alderman. convicted on his second trial. fined
5000 and sentenced to seven years imprison-
ment.
Dec 16-Society of negroes discovered in
York County. S. c., whose objects were robbery
and theft and the murder OF those who opposed
them; two murders already traced to them.
Dec. IA man named Sanders burned to
death near Gainesville, Ga, for decapitating
John Swiiiug, his wife ard three children and
firing the premises, that he might obtain forty
dollars in the house.
Dec s0-A family feud of fifty wears standing
ended at a dance IN. Indian Territory by Sam
Star and Ben Foreman. two notorious dcspera-
does shooting each other dead.
Dec. 24-'Jim' Cummings and two other men
arrested in Chicago for the Adams express rob-
cry on the st. Louis & San Francisco road, for
which crime Messenger FOtheringham had pre-
viously been arrested James Embree. Mem
phis, Tenn. killed Georgia Bissr, and then
himself: cause jealousy While insane Mrs.
Druger near Nashville. Neb., killed her three
children and then herself